Keep It Simple**Keep It Simple — dominant market force in one glance**
The main goal of this indicator is to show which force is dominant on each candle, through a colored EMA cloud and an intuitive color code. The Bollinger Bands help you read whether volatility is expanding or contracting, and the thickness of the short moving-average line tells you whether a trend exists and whether it is gaining force or not.
A simplified read of structure and direction in a single overlay:
- **Bollinger Bands** (length 21 · deviation 1.3 · EMA basis) with a blue cloud between them — the price "territory". Band lines can stay hidden; the cloud alone keeps the read clean.
- **Short EMA (8)** — the direction line; its thickness increases as the trend gains force (thickness driven by ADX plus a short range index, and only while that force is rising).
- **Long EMA (21)** — hidden by default (toggle-able); it always feeds the state color.
- **Cloud between the EMAs**, painted in the color of the current market state.
**How to read the colors (market state · EMAs and cloud):**
- Green — full up (price above EMA 8 · EMA 8 above EMA 21)
- Blue — pullback in an uptrend (price below EMA 8 · EMA 8 above EMA 21)
- Gray — neutral / transition
- Purple — pullback in a downtrend (price above EMA 8 · EMA 8 below EMA 21)
- Red — full down (price below EMA 8 · EMA 8 below EMA 21)
**Why combine these three?** Bands alone tell you *where* price is working; a plain moving average tells you *which way*; neither tells you *how strong* or *what regime*. Here they are wired together: the bands/cloud give the territory and its volatility, the thick colored short EMA gives direction plus strength in one line, and the shared state color ties price, short EMA and long EMA into a single regime read — so one glance answers where price is, which way it leans, and how strong that lean is.
Open-source and fully commented, so you can see exactly how each part is computed and adapt it.
Success to all,
Fabio Maistro
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